Guild Wars 2

Just a silly anecdote for the Ele world out there. Playing in sPvP last night and find myself against a pug team consisting of 4 thiefs and 4 mesmers (I got a screenshot, but I’m not at home and can’t post it here). My team had a good mix: 2 warriors, a thief, mesmer, engineer, myself (an Ele), I think a ranger and something else.

We ended up losing in a close match, but needless to say, it was the biggest pain in the kitten match I’ve ever been a part of. I killed my fair share, but about a minute into the match our entire team just gave up on attempting to stomp downed enemies, it was fracking ridiculous. Normally I don’t have a lot of trouble with glass cannon thiefs (because I have x/x/10/30/30 spec, and I stack toughness/vit) but as the lone Ele on our team, I think the entire group of them made it a point to single me out. 2 or 3 of them would pop outta stealth right on top of me, focusing me all at once, even if teammates of mine were around. I think they figured I was the squishiest. They were wrong a lot

Any other crazy match stories out there?

TL:DR 1.) It’s kinda sad that half the world it seems is re-rolling thief and mesmer. They are tons of them in every match, and typically I’m the lone Ele. I imagine Necro’s feel like this as well. In this match, 10 of the 16 players were thief or mesmer /sadface
2.) This match really highlighted our pathetic downed state to me. We could barely stomp a single enemy, but I got insta-stomped any time I went down. I don’t think Ele is super underpowered, but I 100% agree that our downed state sucks.
3.) Can we get cantrips mastery to work with Mist form please?!? The extra 15 seconds off the cd would be super useful in PITA matches such as this.

Thanks for reading (if you made it this far).

You can always tell what classes are OP after launch because more and more of them pop up.

This was from the last time I stepped into sPvP.
7 Thieves
4 Warriors

2 Elementalists though…
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Sheesh. That scoreboard is depressing. All I can think of when looking at that pic is:

“#2, #2, #2 like a boss”

i like how still the guy at top is an elementalist XD

Warmage Timeraider.5861:

i like how still the guy at top is an elementalist XD

Fair enough, but points in sPvP aren’t necessarily an indication of class balance. If one simply follows the enemy zerg back capping their nodes, you can lead the scoreboard with single digit kills.

But seeing 50% of the players in a couple matches in a row all rolling thief, that’s not fun at all…

As long Anet is looking into the tanky ele, everything is ok. No need to worry, they prolly looking at the low dmg ouput of the spec… (I couldn’t even have a straight face typing that lol).

Dev team lead “ kitten it men and woman! (sense we all work in unisex enviroments). We made elementalists squishy and weak! It looks like they have found an exploit where they can last longer than 8 seconds in pvp! We must nerf this! Also, we will be talking about adding addition slots for thieves to have the ability to switch armor in combat. Two sets of armor can be equipt and they will pull the bonuses from both sets at once. That will teach those elementalists to lay down and take it like a roofie filled prom date….”